What I am most curious about, and what has never been mentioned in the article or in the comments here, is, how the account was hacked. If the author not only has been hacked himself, but also knows other people who have been hacked, it should be possible to find the common denominator between them.
That would be interesting to find out. It's hard to find a common ground between them, since my Sister-in-law has an incredibly different set of usage habits than I do. Further to that, she doesn't have an iPad/iPhone.